Anthony Giordano

English ll honors

Ms. Wilson

10/6/19

My Parents Divorce

When I was twelve, my parents started to go in their separate ways. The year was 2016,

and I was in my first couple months of middle school. At the time we lived in a house in raleigh

with just my parents. When I first found out I wasn’t sure what to think of it. I had a feeling it

was going to come because this almost happened about 8 months prior to this, but I had no clue

what the future was going to look like for my family after this.

My mom moved to my grandmas for a little so my dad couldn’t pay for the house by

himself. Me and my dad moved to an apartment that was pretty nice around twenty minutes

away in about two weeks later, and my mom got her own apartment that wasn’t as good after

about a month later that was thirty minutes away in Raleigh.

Around this time was also when my grades started to drop because of the constant

moving, and I didn’t feel like I was my normal self. I was much more sad than normal, and at

random times I would zone out thinking of what was going on around me at home. It would take

me a little while to get used to the constant moving back and forth from seeing my parents.

About six months later me and my dad moved to rocky mount to live in his girlfriend's

house. This is about an hour drive there from wake forest, and this is when I was getting used to

the new lifestyle. This didn’t change me too much as I was doing pretty good in school and I felt

like my normal self again. The only thing was that we had to drive an hour to school and back
and I had to share a room for the first time. We ended up moving out of there after a little over a

year in early 2018 but we were able to be closer to all the places we would go on a daily basis

like school and work.

My mom and I lived in the apartment in Raleigh for about a year until she moved to an

apartment in wake forest. We wanted to get closer to the school so we didn’t have to drive as far

back and forth. It ended up being much nicer than the last one and newer. This made things much

easier as I had most of my friends in this area and there was more stuff to do in this area than the

last. It was at this point where this whole situation felt normal to me as I was still moving back

and forth from my parents places but I was much more comfortable with how I was living. Now

we're moving to a house in wake forest in a couple weeks hopefully till I graduate.

What I learned from all of this is life can come at you faster than expected. You don’t

have to be prepared from a situation like this, but sometimes when it happens you won’t have

much time to think of what you have to do to make you and everyone else in the situation happy.

Although you might not make everyone in the situation happy they would most likely appreciate

it if you were at least open about an idea to make something hard at the moment easier. You

shouldn’t let the past affect how your future plays out. When you move that many times and the

tension between your parents going on it will affect you for a little while. Then you realize none

of what's going on will change so you got to move forward and take the next step in your life.

Those are all the things that I had to realize when I was going through this.